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name: extract-template

description: "Extract a reusable presentation, document, or illustration template from source files or an HTML deck URL. Use when asked to extract a deck or Word template, turn a PDF into a Word template, apply a company template to Markdown, or save an image style for reuse."

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# Extract a reusable template from a file

Choose the intended template, select its extraction guide, then follow that guide

through inspection, extraction, validation and saving.

## 1. Choose the template type

Use the user's requested template type. For example, a report can supply the

visual style for a presentation template. When the user leaves the type open,

identify what the source contains:

| Template type | Source content |

| --- | --- |

| Presentation | Slides organized around individual ideas, with display text and visual compositions |

| Document | A report, letter, resume, invoice or other document with reading order and document structure |

| Illustration | Artwork whose drawing style will be reused |

Classify PDFs and page images by their content. A slide screenshot belongs to

presentation; a scanned document belongs to document. Sparse text or a short page

count alone does not make a document a slide deck. Several artwork references in

one drawing style form one illustration template.

## 2. Select the source and guide

Keep the original file. When both an authoring file and its export are available,

prefer the authoring file: `.pptx` over its PDF, `.docx` over its PDF.

| Chosen template | Available source | Guide |

| --- | --- | --- |

| Presentation | HTML file, HTML directory or deck URL; `.pptx`, `.ppt`, PDF or ordered slide images | [Presentation extraction](presentation/SKILL.md) |

| Document | Word file | [Word extraction](docx/SKILL.md) |

| Document | PDF | [PDF extraction](pdf/SKILL.md) |

| Illustration | One or more artwork images | [Illustration extraction](illustration/SKILL.md) |

Prepare another format only when the selected guide requires it:

- Scanned document images: assemble an ordered PDF for the PDF guide.

- Cross-format reuse: export slides to PDF for a Word-style template, or a Word

report to PDF for a presentation template. The requested template type stays

the same.

Keep conversions alongside the original source.

## 3. Follow the selected guide

`cd` into the selected guide's directory; its commands and paths are relative to

that directory.

The guide handles source rendering when needed. Rendering produces page images

for inspecting layout, typography, colours and image crops; those captures become

the visual reference for extraction. Keep the original for structure and style

metadata. Reuse existing source captures; no need to render them again.

Document guides use [document-reuse.md](document-reuse.md) to choose between slot

filling, structure and expression reuse, and style extraction. The presentation

guide separately identifies extraction files and the generation files bundled

into the saved template.